Life Cycles

Life Cycles – Paper investigates timber, pulp and paper manufacturing. Photographer Daniel Bushaway aims to challenge the viewer to meditate on human endeavour and our relationship with nature.

Daniel Bushaway, Life Cycles – Paper
Life Cycles – Paper is a body of work exploring timber, pulp and paper manufacturing from a local perspective by documenting the journey from plantation through to post-consumption.
The impetus for this series is my fascination with paper and desire as a consumer to understand and explore contemporary manufacturing and industry, which is inherently politically charged with ideas of conservation and sustainability.
Daniel Bushaway, Life Cycles – Paper
Daniel Bushaway, Life Cycles – Paper

I aim to construct a narrative rich and dense in detail, the implicit architecture of these spaces mirroring the complexity of our own daily interactions with industry. The works will aim to challenge the viewer to meditate on human endeavour and our relationship with nature, more specifically, the disconnect between the commodities we use daily, the production of which is so removed from our lives – a dilemma of our modern existence.

Life Cycles – Paper is a long term responsive project. Building relationships with key companies, manufacturers and institutions has been key to gaining access to some unique locations and has enabled me to capture the paper industry.


Daniel John Bushaway
graduated from Camberwell College of Art and Craft in London and is a documentary photographer living and working in Melbourne, Australia. He shoots exclusively on large format film cameras to observe and document the way we cultivate our environments.

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